Source code for langchain.vectorstores.base
"""Interface for vector stores."""
from __future__ import annotations
from abc import ABC, abstractmethod
from typing import Any, Iterable, List, Optional
from langchain.docstore.document import Document
from langchain.embeddings.base import Embeddings
[docs]class VectorStore(ABC):
    """Interface for vector stores."""
[docs]    @abstractmethod
    def add_texts(
        self,
        texts: Iterable[str],
        metadatas: Optional[List[dict]] = None,
        **kwargs: Any,
    ) -> List[str]:
        """Run more texts through the embeddings and add to the vectorstore.
        Args:
            texts: Iterable of strings to add to the vectorstore.
            metadatas: Optional list of metadatas associated with the texts.
            kwargs: vectorstore specific parameters
        Returns:
            List of ids from adding the texts into the vectorstore.
        """
[docs]    def add_documents(self, documents: List[Document], **kwargs: Any) -> List[str]:
        """Run more documents through the embeddings and add to the vectorstore.
        Args:
            documents (List[Document]: Documents to add to the vectorstore.
        Returns:
            List[str]: List of IDs of the added texts.
        """
        # TODO: Handle the case where the user doesn't provide ids on the Collection
        texts = [doc.page_content for doc in documents]
        metadatas = [doc.metadata for doc in documents]
        return self.add_texts(texts, metadatas, **kwargs)
[docs]    @abstractmethod
    def similarity_search(
        self, query: str, k: int = 4, **kwargs: Any
    ) -> List[Document]: